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Heather Richardson

Special Counsel

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Expertise

  • Director statutory and fiduciary duties
  • Restraint of trade
  • Director disputes
  • Shareholder disputes and oppression proceedings
  • Trust disputes
  • Sale of business disputes
  • Lease disputes
  • Complex contractual disputes
  • Misleading and deceptive conduct claims under the Australian Consumer Law
  • Search orders
  • Intellectual property
  • Managing voluntary recalls and obligations to consumers

Experience

  • Secured a Supreme Court search order on urgent application.
  • Acted for a creditor in a successful secured payment claim under a foreign exchange contract.
  • Represented a client in the Federal Court under ACL claims involving unauthorised use of a prescribed mark.
  • Appearing before an international sporting disciplinary tribunal in relation to allegations regarding conduct.
  • Achieved successful preliminary discovery in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
  • Managed judicial advice matters before the Supreme Court of Victoria.
  • Ongoing advisory role in relation to a voluntary national product recall.

 

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